Half the Picture's third guest is Jason Reitman, director of such modern classics as Juno, Up in the Air and his latest, Saturday Night: a visceral portrait of the 90 minutes leading up to the birth of the classic late-night comedy show!
Jason joined us to chat the length and breadth of his career, ranging from his exuberant debut ‘Thank You for Smoking’, to the life-changing impact of making ‘Juno’, up through the deeply personal journey he undertook making ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ with his father Ivan to working with the iconic J.K. Simmons and exec-producing Damien Chazelle's ‘Whiplash!' For all this and more, watch on! #jasonreitman #saturdaynightmovie #ghostbusters
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*Note: This interview was recorded on July 27th 2024.
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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
00:44 - Thank You for Smoking
04:57 - Directing is reacting
06:07 - Improvisation on set
10:30 - Young Adult
12:31 - Diablo Cody
13:37 - Up in the Air
16:08 - Flawed Protagonists
17:24 - Juno
25:01 - Tully
27:55 - Favourite Scenes
29:44 - Adapting novels to screen
31:53 - Discovering young stars
34:52 - Adam Sandler
38:45 - Maker's Mark in Diablo Cody scripts
40:09 - Eric Steelberg D.O.P.
43:59 - The Front Runner & confident directing
46:36 - Ghostbusters: Afterlife
48:51 - Growing as a filmmaker
51:32 - Jason's favourite directors
55:18 - Exciting upcoming movies
57:10 - Invisible directing
01:00:31 - Using Letterboxd
01:02:20 - Saturday Night
01:05:08 - J.K. Simmons & producing Whiplash
01:06:56 - Outro
'JASON REITMAN talks Juno, Ghostbusters & Saturday Night' is a non-profit project intended for educational purposes only. No copyright laws were intended to be broken. All rights to any material used remain courtesy of their respective owners.